Props Over Here Presents: Rakim Classics

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Rakim was way before his time when he dropped "Paid In Full" and is still nice with it in '07 (check his verse from "Classic", the Nas, KRS, Kanye collab I posted a while back). Here is a mix of some of his classic joints.

1. Paid In Full
2. Waiting For The World To End
3. Follow The Leader
4. After U Die (Unreleased/Produced by Dr. Dre)
5. I Ain't No Joke
6. The Militia II (w/ Gangstarr & W.C.)
7. In The Ghetto
8. When I B On Tha Mic
9. Know The Ledge
10. NY 2 Cali (sorry for the DJ talking)
11. New York (Ya Out There)
12. Eric B. Is President
13. It's Been A Long Time
14. I Know You Got Soul

Sheed gettin' banged on

Andre Iguodala has made posters out of a few guys in his young career, but not like this:


Andre Iguodala Dunks On Rasheed Wallace - MyVideo

Dwight Howard get his grown man on.



LeBron was nice last night. This was not nice.

Hip-Hop Signatures

Since I would imagine the blogging community isn't much different from the message board community, I thought some hip-hop signatures may be useful. If you can't recognize or read small print it's: Sean Price, Murs, Supastition, Raekwon, & Ghostface.

The Beat Generation

In the early 2000's, the UK's BBE records released a series of albums for some of the greatest producers ever. In the words of Pete Rock, "The Concept of the Beat Generation is based on artistic freedom. Major labels wouldn't appreciate the artistic freedom like BBE." Anyway, here are the albums:

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This is my favorite instrumental album ever. A masterpiece from the #1 Soul Brother.

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This has got a few instrumentals but mostly MC tracks including appearences from Grap Luva, Larry-O, Big Daddy Kane, and a lot of piff pocketers. Just some nice tracks by the god.

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I liked Dilla but never really felt this album to be honest. If you liked Donuts or The Shining though I'd recommend this.

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More R&B than the "Return..." but there's some good stuff on here.

Styles P & AZ: The Hardest

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Just a nice little street track produced by the Large Professor. This is gonna be on a Styles P compilation album (i think) but AZ steals the show on the track. If only AZ fucked with producers like Large Pro more often...

Blaq Poet Feat. NYG'z: "N*gga, Ho, Bitch"

Works of Mart is DJ Premier's label with his weed-carriers Blaq Poet (a rap vet, formerly of Screwball) and the NYG'z. Both are on this banger, produced by da god of course. Sorry for the Real Audio. Listen.

Random News

New Souls of Mischief

The West Coast crew that brought you the underground classic, "93 'til Infinity" (best song evar), is back at it. Their new album, which is set to drop this year, is gonna be produced by Prince Paul. Sounds like good news but it may be about 10 years too late.

"Finding Forever"

Another anticipated release will be Common and Kanye's second collab effort, "Finding Forever" which will hopefully be better than their last album. If nothing else, they did find a way to come up with a gayer album name than "Be". Anyway, the single, "The People" (right click, save target as), is kinda tight.

New DJ Jazzy Jeff

"Return of The Magnificient" drops tomorrow. Cop it, son!

Real Live: "The Turnaround: A Long Awaited Drama"

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Real Live is the Jersey-based duo of producer legend, K-Def, and rapper, Larry-O. The production is the real highlight of the album but Larry-O does his share on the mic. Neither guy has done much since, but at least they left us with this gem.

Props Over Here Presents: Fast Life

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This is the end all of collaborations, Nas and Kool G. Rap on some mafioso shit. The original is a classic but the remix (produced by Buckwild) is perfection. Click to get em both.